Well, I liked it's color... Also, it wasn't that expensive. I think I paid 1euro for that, and 3,5 for each of the other two. And while a friend also bought quite a few from the same seller, we split the shipping cost.

When those three cards arrived, I was testing a pentium board I also got, and used that just to see if the cards work. So, I had a pentium 233MMX with a 4MB S3 Virge card, which scored 163 on 3DBench. First I replaced the Virge with the Tseng card, and it dropped down to 68. And using the other two, it was around 35....

I scored another big haul of compy parts over the last week. I picked up a couple shifts, work was slow and I took the opportunity to do a little rummaging in the scrap heap. Plus a couple things I bought on eBay finally came.

What's the date code on that Dallas RTC and how much did it set you back? A lot of times Chinese eBay sellers try to get away with selling 95/96 date code RTC's, which is entirely useless since the built-in battery doesn't typically last more than 15 years.

The first two numbers on the RTC should be the year, the next two are the week.

I ordered some from a Chinese IC dealer for less than $3 each and they had 1995 date codes. I finally got a refund after going thru Paypal.

My luck with RTCs has been hit or miss. I did get some on eBay for $5 each that had 2006 date codes though. One worked and the other didn't. Again, I got a refund. If you are willing to dish out $12 per RTC, digikey sells new pieces with 2010/2011 date codes!

I think I only paid 7$ for the Dallas, came from a US address but looks like it's originally from a Chinese dealer. The date code seems to be 9125, so looks like this thing is over 20yrs old... however it seems to be working OK. I'm not out much if it doesn't last long. I only have 1 PS/2 (I thought I had 2, but can't find my 50Z, which had a bad HDD anyway), so next time it comes around, I'll get the 12$ chip.

How do these work anyway? Are they always active from the moment they're made, or do they only work/discharge the battery when they're installed into the motherboard?

Markk wrote:Well, I liked it's color... Also, it wasn't that expensive. I think I paid 1euro for that, and 3,5 for each of the other two. And while a friend also bought quite a few from the same seller, we split the shipping cost.

I remember my dad having a Video7 card in his computer. Apparently it had decent AutoCAD drivers.

The reason I remember it so well is that it has the cycling rainbow-coloured text at boot-up. I thought that was pretty nifty.

It also had a decent VESA driver, that allowed me to play MechWarrior 2.

The MCB-1 iam going to use with my 80386 system to connecting an CM-300 on..

Very nice aquisition. How much did it cost?

Enough, but it is it worth.. Its harder to find an CM-32L.. or so..And mostly these cards are more about 250 euros~ priced then lower..And the MCB-1 is the hardest to get!! Yes i can wait till i find a other or cheaper one, but then you can still keep waiting. And never finding one.I have also an Roland IPC-T and MIDIMAN MPU interfaces.. so i always can use those too if i need to..

SquallStrife wrote:

Robin4 wrote:The roland LAPC-I iam going to use with the 80286 build.

The MCB-1 iam going to use with my 80386 system to connecting an CM-300 on..

How do you mean?

The MCB-1 goes along with the LAPC-I, do you have another LAPC-I to use it with?

My 80386 contains already a Roland Lapc-I card. That on i bought few months ago in germany.. but i only was still looking for an MCB-1 device so i could hook my roland CM-300 on.. Otherwise i need to a second slot to connect the cm-300 too..

Robin4 wrote:My 80386 contains already a Roland Lapc-I card. That on i bought few months ago in germany.. but i only was still looking for an MCB-1 device so i could hook my roland CM-300 on.. Otherwise i need to a second slot to connect the cm-300 too..

An AT-style Aopen AV5PM Pentium 166, loaded with Windows 98. 32MB RAM, 56x CD, 2GB HDD, cheap ESS sound, a modem, CL PCI video, and an Opti USB card, but this board actually has a USB header...strange. The CPU fan was stuck solid, and the heatsink mounted with no thermal grease. Some people just should NOT touch computers AT ALL.

Once I got it blown out and cleaned up, in went the Elsa Synergy-II 32MB, SB Live!, 128MB SDRAM (4 DIMM slots and 1 SDRAM slot), and probably a 233 MMX CPU when I find it, also a Voodoo if I can scare one up cheaply.

This was the only AT-style system he had today. 2 Compaq mini-Towers, 3 Dell desktops, and a couple of generic ATX PC's that didn't interest me and I just don't have the room to collect any more of those.